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Under the shade of a grove of trees south of the La Plata County Fairgrounds, six teams assembled with their chuck wagons on Saturday morning to prepare a traditional Western meal. Two...

ALBUQUERQUE – A man charged in the death of an 11-year-old girl in a remote part of the largest American Indian reservation is headed to federal court. Tom Begaye is scheduled Tuesday to attend a...

Editor’s note: This story was printed in Vol. 3 of the Montezuma County Historical Society’s “Great Sage to Timberline,” and was given to the historical society by his family. The late D.B. McGue,...

When Carolyn Shelton began working at southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2001, she expected to leave it in better shape for the next generation. Fifteen years later, in...

A 49-year-old man was found dead Sunday in a Durango West II home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s spokesman Dan Bender...

The weather in Mancos was cloudy and sometimes wet on the last weekend of July, but that didn’t stop Mancos residents from enjoying the 2017 Mancos Days festival. Friday’s festivities focused on...

On Wednesday, the Mancos town board voted to pave three street sections as part of an agreement with the local Family Dollar. When the store first planned to build a location on 560 W. Menefee St.,...

A 23-year-old man who duct-taped his dog’s mouth shut and left the animal in a car parked at the Durango Community Recreation Center has been charged with animal cruelty. Both the 6th Judicial...

Three staff members of the Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios office in Dolores received a Valor Award for their efforts to save a co-workers’ life last year. In August 2016, BLM geologist...

State and federal fish biologists have surveyed the lower Dolores River to gauge native fish populations. Crews from the Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Parks and Wildlife took advantage of...